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No. 620,469. c. w. LYoN.

LUG STRAP FOB LUON PIKEB (Appuem'nn am sont. 17, 189s.) (ll Model.)

Patented Feb.-28, i899.

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TH: Ngnms frans cofwnoTo-mu UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo CHARLES WV.LYON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO E. F.

HOUGI-ITON & CO.,

OF SAME PLACE.

LUG-STRAP FOR LOOM PICKER-STICKS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 620,469, dated February28, 1899.

Application tiled September 17, 1898. Serial No. 691,195. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. LYON, a citizen of the United States,residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certures of theinvention is applicable to lug' straps made of other material.

The object of my invention is to so construct the lug-strap thatvit willpresent a rounded bearing for the stick, said bearing presenting ahardened or compacted surface which will afford enduring resistance tothe wearing action of the stick, the hardened or compacted surface inthe case of a leather strap being the grain-surface of the leather. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional plan view of alug-strap for pickersticks constructed in accordance with myinvention;and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Ordinarily leather lug-straps consist simply of two pieces of leatherglued or cemented together and bent into U- shape; but such lugstrapswear rapidly, owing to the action of the picker-stick upon the upper andlower edges of the same where said stick comes into contact with thestrap at the bend or bow. Attempts have been made to overcome thisobjection by securing upon the inside of the strap at said bowed or bentend of the same a rounded block of leather, which will present a curvedsurface for the action of the stick, but this is also objectionable,because the constant blows of the stick upon this block tend to displaceit and because it does not present a smooth hard wearing-surface to thestick. l

In carrying out my invention I secure together the flesh sides of thetwo leather strips 1 and 2 of which the lug-strap is composed, so thatthe grain-surfaces of the leather are presented on the inner and outersides of the strap, and I secure between the two strips a filler-block3, of leather or other available material of substantially pyramidalshape, this block occupying a position'at the bend or bow of the strap,as shown in the drawings, so as to cause the inner strip 2 to present atsaid bow or bend a vertically and laterally curved or convex face, asshown at e in Figs. l and 2, and I subject the strap to heavy pressurebetween suitable dies, so as to compress and compact the leather at thebow or bend of the strap, thereby hardening, smoothing, and polishingthe grain-surface of the leather on the inner strip 2, so that thecurved or convex bearin g 4 for the picker-stick will be well calculatedto resist the wear of the stick and will thereby materially increase theterm of usefulness of the strap. The interposed filling-block may alsobe used with advantage in that class of lug-straps which are composed ofsuperposed layers of textile fabric or other material than leather.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patentl. Alug-strap for the picker-stick of aloom, saidlug-strap consisting of superposed strips secured together and bent intoU form and having interposed between them, at the bend or bow, apyramidal filler-block, whereby the inner strip presents, at such curveor bow, a convex or rounded bearing-face for the pickerstick,-substantially as specified.

2. A lug-strap for the picker-stick of a loom, said lug-strap consistingof two strips `of leather, secured together and bent into U form andhaving interposed between them, at the bend or bow, a pyramidaliiller-block, whereby the inner strip presents, at such curve or bow, aconvex or rounded bearingface for the picker-stick, said bearing-facebeing composed of the grain-surface of the leather, substantially asspecified.

3. A lug-strap for the picker-sticks of looms, 'said strap consisting ofsuperposed strips secured together and bent into U form and havingsecured between them at the bend or bow a transverselycurvedfiller-block whereby the inner strip presents at such bend or bow, aconvex .face serving as a bearing for the stick, said convex face beinghardened or compacted by pressure, substantially as specified.

4. A lug-strap for the picker-sticks of looms, said strap consisting oftwo strips of leather secured together and bent into U form and hav- ICOing secured between them at Lhebendor bow, In testimony whereof I havesigned my a transversely-curved ller-bloek whereby name to thisspeciicaoion in the presence of Io the inner strip presents at such bend0r boW two subscribing Witnesses. a convex face serving as a bearing forthe r 5 stick, said convex face being composed of the CHARLES XV' L ON"grain-surface of the leather and being har- Vitnesses: dened orcompacted by pressure, substan- JOS. II. KLEIN, tally as speeed. FRANKE. BEGHTOLD.

